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because yes, we all do use oil for now. but we need to start using it much more wisely. and we're going to have to make some choices. and we need to spur that type of innovation, like we did under kennedy to go to the moon, we need to spur the same innovation to create a sustainable economy that's based on the energy of the future, not on the energy of the past. >> and bill, that same oxford study that said that there was not always an immediate economic impact from the divestment activity ultimately concluded that there was powerful political impact in many of these campaigns, including the apartheid campaign. and that's ultimately what we need is to put a price on carbon. and we need to have a policy process that can be successful and is not captured by the influence of the fossil fuel industry. and that's, i think, the big play, at stake. >> do you ever stop to think, why are we having to do this? why do we have to pressure corporations to be good stewards of the earth and in this case of the future? i mean, shouldn't this be happening from within them? >> yes. and it
because yes, we all do use oil for now. but we need to start using it much more wisely. and we're going to have to make some choices. and we need to spur that type of innovation, like we did under kennedy to go to the moon, we need to spur the same innovation to create a sustainable economy that's based on the energy of the future, not on the energy of the past. >> and bill, that same oxford study that said that there was not always an immediate economic impact from the divestment...
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we use paper, we use lumber. we're not against logging. we just want to be sure your kids and grandchildren will be able to log forests as rich as the ones you're cutting now. right away one of the loggers jumped in and said, there's no way my kids are going into logging. there aren't going to be any trees left. and that's when i understood or i realized that we weren't talking to each other. they were talking about, look, i've got to put food on the plate every day. i've got to pay for my car and my mortgage. they're looking at it in terms of immediate needs whereas what we were arguing was the long term protection of the forest that could continue to yield wood and pulp forever if we do it the right way. but we're arguing in different ways. and i think that's one of the most important lessons is when we begin a conversation, let's at least start from a common ground so that we know what we're talking about. otherwise we're just talking past each other. >> how do you reach common ground there? >> if we can both agree that the health of th
we use paper, we use lumber. we're not against logging. we just want to be sure your kids and grandchildren will be able to log forests as rich as the ones you're cutting now. right away one of the loggers jumped in and said, there's no way my kids are going into logging. there aren't going to be any trees left. and that's when i understood or i realized that we weren't talking to each other. they were talking about, look, i've got to put food on the plate every day. i've got to pay for my car...
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people who share values with us. the media steps in, people who will say the things that we agree with in terms of you know, abortion, gun control, immigration, things like that. so i think it's a matter of we are being told things by people who don't like the solutions to climate change, and have decided that it's a lot better and it's a lot smarter to deny the reality of the problem than to acknowledge it exists, but say you don't want do anything about it. so we have people, for example, like bob inglis. probably every politician when they're first elected, say, to congress, they might be walked into a room and shown a picture of bob inglis and said, let me tell you what happened to bob. he, very conservative person onñ every single issue, except climate change. his son convinced him that climate change really was real. bob had the moral courage to stand up and say it is, and he was out. >> defeated? >> yes. >> at the polls? >> uh-huh. in the primaries. >> presumably by many very christian -- >> absolutely. >> --
people who share values with us. the media steps in, people who will say the things that we agree with in terms of you know, abortion, gun control, immigration, things like that. so i think it's a matter of we are being told things by people who don't like the solutions to climate change, and have decided that it's a lot better and it's a lot smarter to deny the reality of the problem than to acknowledge it exists, but say you don't want do anything about it. so we have people, for example,...
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texas, you can't use your tribal i.d. you can use your veteran's i.d. indiana, you can use your veteran's i.d. so you have a hodgepodge happening in various states. but what you see the trend is, that it's getting increasingly, increasingly restrictive. the forms of photo i.d. that are required are increasingly restrictive. and what we showed in this texas case is that there are many people who cannot afford to get the photo i.d. because you've got to first get the birth certificate, which may cost you between $20 and $42. you've got to go to the agency, which means you've got to take off work to get that birth certificate. you've got to go to the motor vehicle bureau to get the photo i.d., and you've got to pay for it. and that actually means you have to take another day off of work. so you essentially left it to the devices of individuals, working people, working poor people who can't take days off work, who don't have the underlying documents to jump through this regulatory obstacle course in order to exercise what is their right as a citizen. >> doe
texas, you can't use your tribal i.d. you can use your veteran's i.d. indiana, you can use your veteran's i.d. so you have a hodgepodge happening in various states. but what you see the trend is, that it's getting increasingly, increasingly restrictive. the forms of photo i.d. that are required are increasingly restrictive. and what we showed in this texas case is that there are many people who cannot afford to get the photo i.d. because you've got to first get the birth certificate, which may...
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and that grew us. and now you're arguing over whether this guy who's working every day at the burger king, whether he can have $10 or $12 an hour. aren't you ashamed of yourself? aren't -- you know, where's the shame? there is no shame anymore in america. >> that brings me to another part of your speech. let's listen. >> that may be the ultimate tragedy of capitalism in our time, which is that it has achieved its dominance without regard to a social compact, without being connected to any other metric for human progress. >> and by social contract you mean? >> those are the things that make life worth living, that make -- that give value to being a person, a citizen. if how much money you have is the defining characteristic of citizenship or of value or of relevance, of human relevance, and if that's all that we're going to measure -- and apparently, since 1980 this all we're going to measure -- you're going to get a society to live in that is structured on that metric. and it's going to be a brutal one
and that grew us. and now you're arguing over whether this guy who's working every day at the burger king, whether he can have $10 or $12 an hour. aren't you ashamed of yourself? aren't -- you know, where's the shame? there is no shame anymore in america. >> that brings me to another part of your speech. let's listen. >> that may be the ultimate tragedy of capitalism in our time, which is that it has achieved its dominance without regard to a social compact, without being connected...
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he didn't lie to us. so if you have leadership which delivers, or at least says, franklin delano roosevelt, remember what he said? he said, these are the economic royalists. they hate my guts and i welcome their hatred because i'm on your side. that's the kind of policy and language we need. >> i apologize for being tedious but you're right, you know? we -- a lot of changes. black rights, women's rights, gay rights. but here in new york, we have a governor who's been really good on gay rights and he's a handmaiden of wall street. i mean, hillary clinton, chuck schumer, their constituency is wall street. so people who want to come out and do what you want to do, are led by people who say, well, we'll go only so far because our loyalty remains to money. >> okay, yes. the only point, there is a difference between social issues and the economic issues. and i will not deny for one moment that taking on the ruling class of this country and the billionaire class, it's tough stuff. it is tough stuff. so i don't h
he didn't lie to us. so if you have leadership which delivers, or at least says, franklin delano roosevelt, remember what he said? he said, these are the economic royalists. they hate my guts and i welcome their hatred because i'm on your side. that's the kind of policy and language we need. >> i apologize for being tedious but you're right, you know? we -- a lot of changes. black rights, women's rights, gay rights. but here in new york, we have a governor who's been really good on gay...
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which brings us to two officials chosen by president obama to lead those trade negotiations. lee fang reports that they received multi-million dollar bonuses as they left giant financial firms to join the government. bank of america gave this man, stefan seelig, more than $9 million in bonus pay as he was nominated to become the undersecretary of commerce for international trade. and this man, michael froman, got over $4 million when he left citigroup to become the current u.s. trade representative. now, both are no doubt honorable men -- they are all honorable men -- but when push comes to shove, and the financial interests of huge corporations are on the table, we can only hope they will act as independent men, not faithful servants of the deep state. but given the secrecy, we may never know. according to fang, many large corporations with a strong incentive to influence public policy give executives bonuses and other incentive pay if they take jobs within the government. among them; goldman sachs, morgan stanley, jp morgan chase, the blackstone group, fannie mae, northern
which brings us to two officials chosen by president obama to lead those trade negotiations. lee fang reports that they received multi-million dollar bonuses as they left giant financial firms to join the government. bank of america gave this man, stefan seelig, more than $9 million in bonus pay as he was nominated to become the undersecretary of commerce for international trade. and this man, michael froman, got over $4 million when he left citigroup to become the current u.s. trade...
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all of us as human beings, the people that helped us in, a friend in need is a friend indeed is the saying that we have as human beings. >> is that a way to run the government of the united states? >> it's a way to run it into the next disaster. >> you think that's possible? >> oh no, not possible, it's certain. we have created the incentive structures that is going to produce a much larger disaster. and just look at it. again it isn't just the frauds that led to the crisis. it is all the frauds afterwards. hsbc knowingly launders over $1 billion in funds for the sinaloa cartel, one of the most vicious drug cartels in the world that has caused the deaths of thousands of people. we don't prosecute. we have them dead to rights. we don't say that you can't do business anymore. we take no serious sanctions, just one of these silly fines again. standard chartered, one of the, again one of the largest banks in the world, not only evaded sanctions on funding terrorist groups and nations that we say are funding terror, but actually had training manuals on how to deceive the united states regulator
all of us as human beings, the people that helped us in, a friend in need is a friend indeed is the saying that we have as human beings. >> is that a way to run the government of the united states? >> it's a way to run it into the next disaster. >> you think that's possible? >> oh no, not possible, it's certain. we have created the incentive structures that is going to produce a much larger disaster. and just look at it. again it isn't just the frauds that led to the...
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the merger of american and us air, giving us only four major airlines and less competition. comcast buying nbc universal, also reducing competition. the very wealthy getting a trivial increase in taxes while the payroll tax of working people will go from 4.2% to 6.2%. colossal salaries escalating again, many subsidized by tax payers. the postal service ending service on saturday. what's the picture you get from that montage of headlines? >> well, for me it is captured by the european word "austerity." we're basically saying that even though the widening gap between rich and poor built us up, many of the factors that plunged us into a crisis, instead of dealing with them and fixing that problem, we're actually allowing the crisis to make the inequality worse. the latest research from the leading two economists, saez from the university of california in berkeley, and piketty in france confirms that even over the last five years of the crisis, through 2012, the inequality of wealth and income has gotten worse, as though we are determined not to deal with it. all of those headli
the merger of american and us air, giving us only four major airlines and less competition. comcast buying nbc universal, also reducing competition. the very wealthy getting a trivial increase in taxes while the payroll tax of working people will go from 4.2% to 6.2%. colossal salaries escalating again, many subsidized by tax payers. the postal service ending service on saturday. what's the picture you get from that montage of headlines? >> well, for me it is captured by the european word...
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>> well, i want to say i'm optimistic if it can be used in a way that connects us in ways that will make us more human, as that will bring the human community together. but let me just take politics. i was so optimistic and excited about the connections that people could form politically using the computer. and there has been some fantastic things, obviously. but very often, people feel as though they've politically participated if they go on a website and they check "like." they feel that that is belonging to a -- making a political statement. politics is actually, i think, going into your community, having a conversation, not to overuse the word, disagreeing with somebody, putting yourself into somebody else's head, often very hard, looking somebody in the eye, really doing the hard work of empathy, something that you don't learn by email. it's the last place to develop empathic skills. so the question of community and being part of a community is either something that computers can help or that computation can undermine, depending on how we use it. >> have you found that people feel e
>> well, i want to say i'm optimistic if it can be used in a way that connects us in ways that will make us more human, as that will bring the human community together. but let me just take politics. i was so optimistic and excited about the connections that people could form politically using the computer. and there has been some fantastic things, obviously. but very often, people feel as though they've politically participated if they go on a website and they check "like."...
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but the same scientists who told us that would happen tell us that we're going to raise it four or five degrees before the century is out if we keep on our current trajectory. >> so when you and sue came to town monday and the weather was chilled and the snow was falling and the ice was forming, you didn't think nature was taunting your predictions -- >> no. >> -- about global warning? >> no, at this point, i appreciate so much whenever we have a snowstorm or a winter because i know not to take it for granted. and i know that at the same time that it was cold down in the middle of the united states, they were seeing absolute record warmth breaking every record up in alaska. we know that california's in record drought and we know in the u.k., they just came through the wettest month they've ever recorded with flooding so bad that it's causing every kind of problem. all around the world we see this climate chaos taking hold. and as i say, that's in the early stages of this fight, of this change. that's why we've got to get a hold of it now. if we do, it's not that we can stop global warmi
but the same scientists who told us that would happen tell us that we're going to raise it four or five degrees before the century is out if we keep on our current trajectory. >> so when you and sue came to town monday and the weather was chilled and the snow was falling and the ice was forming, you didn't think nature was taunting your predictions -- >> no. >> -- about global warning? >> no, at this point, i appreciate so much whenever we have a snowstorm or a winter...
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these kinds of words are used. but that's useless to people who want to learn how to run a business, because it's a fantasy. so, they are shunted someplace else. if you want to learn about marketing, or promotion, or advertising, or administration, or personnel, go over there. those people teach you how the economy actually works and how you'll have to make decisions if you're going to run a business. over there, you learn about how beautiful it all is when you think abstractly about its basic principles. >> the invisible hand. >> yeah. >> the market. >> all of that. so for me, i began to realize, "okay, i'm an economist. i'm in that one. but i want to understand how the real economy works." and then i discovered that i needed to reeducate myself. i had to go learn things that i was never assigned to read. >> after harvard? after stanford? and after yale? >> it actually happened while i was there. i was already -- there were a few people -- >> as heretics. >> yes, they do. >> a few. >> you know, but you know, capit
these kinds of words are used. but that's useless to people who want to learn how to run a business, because it's a fantasy. so, they are shunted someplace else. if you want to learn about marketing, or promotion, or advertising, or administration, or personnel, go over there. those people teach you how the economy actually works and how you'll have to make decisions if you're going to run a business. over there, you learn about how beautiful it all is when you think abstractly about its basic...
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so all of us are -- >> toxic trespass? >> toxic trespass -- >> you've used that several times. what is it? >> well, it means that chemicals without our consent enter our body sometimes because we inhale them. you know, each of us breathes a pint of atmosphere with every breath. and so that is one way in which toxic air pollutants then enter us, into our bloodstream. so the other trunk of this tree of crisis is climate instability in which is created of course by the combustion of fossil fuels and their buildup in our atmosphere such that we're trapping heat. and that heat is being absorbed by the ocean, warming the ocean, but also acidifying the ocean in ways that are now precipitating mass species' extinctions. and the main actors in the story of climate instability are carbon dioxide and unburned methane. which is -- >> and fracking affects those? >> and fracking affects both of those, of course in -- first of all, natural gas is methane. and to blast it out of the bedrock and extract it and put it into pipelines and process it and get it to market so that we can make our tea
so all of us are -- >> toxic trespass? >> toxic trespass -- >> you've used that several times. what is it? >> well, it means that chemicals without our consent enter our body sometimes because we inhale them. you know, each of us breathes a pint of atmosphere with every breath. and so that is one way in which toxic air pollutants then enter us, into our bloodstream. so the other trunk of this tree of crisis is climate instability in which is created of course by the...
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more and more land is being used and used fairly destructively by fewer and fewer people. used destructively because the fewness of the people implies and requires a dependence on more and more mechanical power and more and more toxic chemicals. >> arthur young, a farmer whose land is down the road from st. catharine college, learned for himself what chemicals can do. >> i got to looking around at modern farming and i knew something was not right on my land. the water was running off quickly. it was not going in the soil. the land was becoming compacted. and i said, this is not going to work. and i just said enough is enough and that's really when i got into this thing of sustainable agriculture. see that little pile of dirt? that is a worm casting. it's very, very rich in nutrients. i'm on about my third year without fertilizer. not a lot of synthetic stuff goes on this soil. but i know it's getting better because i can see the production and my grasses are getting better every year. >> you also recommend taking animals out of their confinement and putting them back in. >
more and more land is being used and used fairly destructively by fewer and fewer people. used destructively because the fewness of the people implies and requires a dependence on more and more mechanical power and more and more toxic chemicals. >> arthur young, a farmer whose land is down the road from st. catharine college, learned for himself what chemicals can do. >> i got to looking around at modern farming and i knew something was not right on my land. the water was running...
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allows us to be literate. what allows us to be civic literacy may be in some ways the high point of what it means to be an intellectual -- >> because? >> because it suggests that how we learn what we learn and what we do with the knowledge that we have is not just for ourselves. it's for the way in which we can expand and deepen the very processes of democracy in general and address those problems and anti-democratic forces that work against it. now, some people make a living as a result of being intellectuals. but there are people who are intellectuals who don't function in that capacity. they're truck drivers. they're workers. i grew up in a working class neighborhood. the smartest people i have ever met were in that neighborhood. we read books. we went to the library together. we drank on friday nights. we talked about gramsci. we drove to boston. >> gramsci being the italian philosopher. >> the italian philosopher. >> the pessimism of the -- >> of the intellect and optimism of the world. >> right. >> right
allows us to be literate. what allows us to be civic literacy may be in some ways the high point of what it means to be an intellectual -- >> because? >> because it suggests that how we learn what we learn and what we do with the knowledge that we have is not just for ourselves. it's for the way in which we can expand and deepen the very processes of democracy in general and address those problems and anti-democratic forces that work against it. now, some people make a living as a...
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and so there's a lot of interest across the country in using the assets that cities have. >> i used to be a comcast customer. now i'm a verizon fios customer. i have fiber optic at my house. i live in new jersey. it costs money but it's highly functional. it works when i want it to. it does what i want it to do. why aren't they everywhere? i know it's a capital intensive business, because you have to put stuff underground, over ground, that last mile to the home, very expensive. but as susan pointed out, there's a lot of gold in that, trillions of dollars. so if you sink the money into investment, you can pull a lot of money out of that business. so why hasn't that happened? >> you keep returning to the subject of the merger between comcast and time warner. what's the relationship of that merger to net neutrality? >> well, it's sort of where the internet lives. when we talk about the web we're not talking about something that the government built back in the '60s so big institutions could talk to each other. we're talking about a hybrid system of private and public right of ways and in
and so there's a lot of interest across the country in using the assets that cities have. >> i used to be a comcast customer. now i'm a verizon fios customer. i have fiber optic at my house. i live in new jersey. it costs money but it's highly functional. it works when i want it to. it does what i want it to do. why aren't they everywhere? i know it's a capital intensive business, because you have to put stuff underground, over ground, that last mile to the home, very expensive. but as...
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he's using one of those tricks. he's not here to defend himself, so let me be very careful to give, you know, just as much justice as possible to what he's arguing. he, in calculating income gains for the median worker, uses the assumed increase in the value of the home up until 2007. and because home values were rising and many families own their own home in middle-class families, even lower middle-class families, he assumes that they got the benefits of those income gains. well, that's just silly. most people could not sell. if they tried to sell, they'd have to buy another house that was just as expensive. and they don't -- their quality of life, their standard of living is not really affected. and more over, it was a bubble. and back in 2007, 2008 those gains disappeared. so that's a statistical trick. it has nothing to do with how real people live. >> speaking of real people, we began this series last year with three broadcasts on inequality. and in the first one we introduced our audience to a woman living in
he's using one of those tricks. he's not here to defend himself, so let me be very careful to give, you know, just as much justice as possible to what he's arguing. he, in calculating income gains for the median worker, uses the assumed increase in the value of the home up until 2007. and because home values were rising and many families own their own home in middle-class families, even lower middle-class families, he assumes that they got the benefits of those income gains. well, that's just...
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consistent use has been a problem. so that's when they fall under an unintended pregnancy situation. and they're often scrambling to get abortion care. often borrowing money from friends or trying other avenues. so where some of them are able and successful to get the abortions, there's also so many unintended pregnancies that go term because of these policies. >> well, it's also a strategy. until recently, especially, the only supreme court successes in eliminating abortions for many years had been when they combined abortion with a vulnerable, less politically-powered group. so abortion in young women or abortion in women of color and low-income women, and they would get restrictions passed there. that clearly isn't enough. and they're expanding it and expanding it. which is why, suddenly, we recognize the war on women, because it's affecting white women too. but there has always been this war on women -- >> you think there is a war on women? >> i think there has always been, whether you look at how native american w
consistent use has been a problem. so that's when they fall under an unintended pregnancy situation. and they're often scrambling to get abortion care. often borrowing money from friends or trying other avenues. so where some of them are able and successful to get the abortions, there's also so many unintended pregnancies that go term because of these policies. >> well, it's also a strategy. until recently, especially, the only supreme court successes in eliminating abortions for many...
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movement is a word we use often, but don't reflect on what it means. it was the watch word of politics. people were moved and literally moved history. but in a very, very short time. now, the watch word of politics is spin. you know, nothing's going anywhere and nobody's moving. >> not since martin luther king has inequality been on the table the way it was at the occupy briefly appeared on the scene. and i wondered watching occupy from here if a martin luther king had risen to embody that movement, would they have carried us further toward the changes that king and others wanted? >> it may would have. i'm not sure. but, you know, getting rid of poverty, redistribution of wealth is not as easy as getting the right to vote. the right to vote doesn't cost anything. but redistribution of wealth takes across class lines. that costs a lot. and people will fight you in order to prevent that from happening. and i don't know what it would take in order to make that happen. >> it's also not a simple formula. dr. king never said we were going to give up freedom
movement is a word we use often, but don't reflect on what it means. it was the watch word of politics. people were moved and literally moved history. but in a very, very short time. now, the watch word of politics is spin. you know, nothing's going anywhere and nobody's moving. >> not since martin luther king has inequality been on the table the way it was at the occupy briefly appeared on the scene. and i wondered watching occupy from here if a martin luther king had risen to embody...
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and so, some of us are worried. now, i have to say, i mean, i'm reading my own stage directions here. people like me are, in part, going after him, warning about the wimping out thing in order to turn that into a self-denying prophesy. that the idea is to make a situation where the president will be aware what people will say about him if he does give in here so it doesn't happen. >> more than many economists i read, you keep politics at center stage in writing about the economy. those are two different narratives in one sense. and yet, you intertwine them as you keep writing and analyzing our situation today. why is that? >> i think we've reached a moment in our history where the extreme nature of our politics and the extreme nature of the economic situation has converged. you know, here we are, on one side we have a once-in-three-generations economic crisis. right, this is -- starting in 2008, we've been experiencing the crisis that has haunted the nightmares of macro economists since the 1930s. and here it is aga
and so, some of us are worried. now, i have to say, i mean, i'm reading my own stage directions here. people like me are, in part, going after him, warning about the wimping out thing in order to turn that into a self-denying prophesy. that the idea is to make a situation where the president will be aware what people will say about him if he does give in here so it doesn't happen. >> more than many economists i read, you keep politics at center stage in writing about the economy. those...
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people agree with us. we can actually get this done. >> have some politicians treated you with respect? >> all politicians in this system right now are restricted by the system. so that -- >> how so? >> so, they're able to say the good things. you know, they can say the right things, the things that you want to hear. but no politician has stood up and really held a hard line all the way to the end on any issue, on any of the important issues that we face. and i think that there's this thinking by elected officials that, well, if i compromise a little bit on this, at least i can stay in office and try again to do something good. and so, they just keep compromising. and president obama campaigned on renegotiating nafta in a way that was more favorable, but instead is pushing through a more toxic trade agreement. and he's doing worse things with the drones and murdering civilians than bush did. and it's confusing progressives because all of a sudden you have a democratic president willing to even cut our basi
people agree with us. we can actually get this done. >> have some politicians treated you with respect? >> all politicians in this system right now are restricted by the system. so that -- >> how so? >> so, they're able to say the good things. you know, they can say the right things, the things that you want to hear. but no politician has stood up and really held a hard line all the way to the end on any issue, on any of the important issues that we face. and i think...
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us strive to perfection." there are many modern politicians, including mario cuomo, who we both know, who says let's not denigrate lincoln publicly. let's keep him on a pedestal, because it makes others aspire to join him on the pedestal. it brings out the best in modern leaders. and i think there's something to be said for that, as well. >> announcer: we now continue with moyers and company. >> what about the scene where you, where the amendment is in doubt, lincoln himself seems skeptical that they're going to make it, and seward has been pushing him to be careful, not to let it be known that he's around town trying to rouse up votes. and they're in the theater and mary lincoln turns -- well, let's look at it. >> you think i'm ignorant of what you're up to because you haven't discussed this scheme with me as you ought to have done. when have i ever been so easily bamboozled? i believe you when you insist that amending the constitution and abolishing slavery will end this war and since you are sending my son
us strive to perfection." there are many modern politicians, including mario cuomo, who we both know, who says let's not denigrate lincoln publicly. let's keep him on a pedestal, because it makes others aspire to join him on the pedestal. it brings out the best in modern leaders. and i think there's something to be said for that, as well. >> announcer: we now continue with moyers and company. >> what about the scene where you, where the amendment is in doubt, lincoln himself...
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it's supposed to work for all of us. we've got to figure out a way to just help the people who are in power to recognize their own sense of humanity and recognize that they are no different than barbie izquierdo, no different than rosie. that their kids are no different than rosie, that we're all a part of that same human family. ultimately that's what we need to tap into. >> on that note, thank you, dr. mariana chilton, for your work. and kristi jacobson, thank you for an extraordinary film. and thank you both for being here. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> that's it for this week. i'll see you here next time. >> announcer: funding is provided by -- carnegie corporation of new york, celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. the kohlberg foundation. independent production fund, with support from the partridge foundation, a john and polly guth charitable fund. the clements foundation. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical iss
it's supposed to work for all of us. we've got to figure out a way to just help the people who are in power to recognize their own sense of humanity and recognize that they are no different than barbie izquierdo, no different than rosie. that their kids are no different than rosie, that we're all a part of that same human family. ultimately that's what we need to tap into. >> on that note, thank you, dr. mariana chilton, for your work. and kristi jacobson, thank you for an extraordinary...
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we couldn't get gasoline for the indispensable vehicles that get us to work, get us to the supermarket, get us to our sick friends or neighbors. i mean, the point i'm trying to make is we are all the fossil fuel industry, are we not? naomi klein: you know, we often hear that. we often hear that we're all equally responsible for climate change. and that it's just the rules of supply and demand. >> i have two cars. i keep them filled with gasoline. >> i think the question is if there was a fantastic public transit system that really made it easy for you to get to where you wanted to go, would you drive less? i don't know about you, but i certainly would. >> i mean, i use the subways all of the time. >> if it was possible to recharge an electric vehicle and if it was as easy to fill up your car with gasoline, if that electricity came from solar and wind, would you, insist? no, i want to fill my car with dirty energy. no, i don't think you would. >> we are willing to make changes, you know? we recycle and we compost. we ride bicycles. there's actually been a tremendous amount of willingnes
we couldn't get gasoline for the indispensable vehicles that get us to work, get us to the supermarket, get us to our sick friends or neighbors. i mean, the point i'm trying to make is we are all the fossil fuel industry, are we not? naomi klein: you know, we often hear that. we often hear that we're all equally responsible for climate change. and that it's just the rules of supply and demand. >> i have two cars. i keep them filled with gasoline. >> i think the question is if there...
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i like the fact that i know how to use it. it's so cool, i just wish i could use it to get a job. i'm healthy, i'm employable, i'm willing. i've been out of prison for just about a year and i've been looking for a job ever since i've been out. i was a nurse before and i had never had a resume and i just walked in and they would hire me right on the spot. now i have all these resume, these certificates and all this stuff, but it doesn't matter because my background is in the way. >> we don't get a lot of money here. we barely make it from month to month keeping the doors open, keeping food in the houses, keeping the lights on, keeping staff paid. that invoice should've been paid, right? and then do -- how much am i short from payroll? that's still short. okay. all right. bye. it was 1999. i was a few months sober and it angered me that i would be treated so cruel and caged and chained for a drug charge. and i knew thousands of women just like me who had been negatively impacted by the war on drugs, who were incarcerated on a turnstile going in and out of prison, not able to get hel
i like the fact that i know how to use it. it's so cool, i just wish i could use it to get a job. i'm healthy, i'm employable, i'm willing. i've been out of prison for just about a year and i've been looking for a job ever since i've been out. i was a nurse before and i had never had a resume and i just walked in and they would hire me right on the spot. now i have all these resume, these certificates and all this stuff, but it doesn't matter because my background is in the way. >> we...